The Freedom and Justice Party and the Nour Party accused Interior Ministry officials of siding with presidential candidate Ahmed Shafiq on Monday.
An FJP MP, Mohamed Emad Eddin, said that it was clear from the beginning that there is a deal between...
Divisions have surfaced among Egyptian Salafis over whom to back in the upcoming presidential elections, scheduled to take place on 23 and 24 May.
On Wednesday, one Salafi group, the Salafi Legitimate Authority for Rights and Reform, announced its...
Mohamed Nour, spokesperson for the Salafi Nour Party, has said the party is considering nominating a candidate for the presidential elections.
“He must be someone who preserves the Islamic identity of society,” he said.
Nour also said...
The Salafi Nour Party has criticized the government for plans to borrow from international financial institutions rather than implementing an austerity plan.
“We are against usurious deals,” said party spokesperson Mohamed Nour. “...
Yasser Borhamy, a religious leader from the Salafi-oriented Nour Party, has ruled out the possibility of a parliamentary coalition between Salafis and liberal groups.
Borhamy was responding to statements by Emad Abdel Ghafour, the president of the...
The ultra-conservative Salafi Nour Party is funding a sort of religious police, known as the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice Authority, according to the authority’s founders. The party has denied involvement in its formation.
The...
The Nour Party has formed a legal committee to prepare a new constitution for the country, said Emad Abdel Ghafour, president of the Salafi Nour Party.
“It would be based on previous constitutions and experiences so as to arrive at the best...
The spokesman for the Nour Party, the leading Salafi political party in Egypt, has affirmed his party's commitment to the Camp David peace agreement with Israel.
The spokesman, Yousry Hammad, said that he was contacted by a correspondent from...
Salafi Nour Party Chairman Emad Abdel Ghafour has called on all political parties and movements to help end clashes between protesters and the armed forces in and around Tahrir Square that have been ongoing since Friday. He called for dialogue...
The Salafi Nour Party’s supreme committee has prohibited prominent Salafi figure Abdel Moneim al-Shahat from issuing press statements, after the latter accused the late Nobel Laureate Naguib Mahfouz of promoting prostitution, drugs and other...